Success hides problems...you don't need to address problems.

If everyone is trying to prevent error, it screws things up.

If you give a good idea to a mediocre group, they'll screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a good group, they'll fix it. Or they'll throw it away and come up with something else.

You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged.

If you aren't experiencing failure, then you are making a far worse mistake: You are being driven by the desire to avoid it.

Creativity doesn't follow titles. It just comes from where it comes from.

Art isn't about drawing; it's about learning to see. What organization doesn't need this ability?

For me, creativity includes problem-solving. That's the broad definition of it.

Every creative person can draft into service those around them who exhibit the right mixture of intelligence, insight, and grace.

I love solving the problems of having groups work together and removing barriers. But to actually turn around and be in the center of that is an awkward place to be.

You can give a great film idea to a mediocre team and they may screw it up, but if you give a mediocre idea to a great team, they will turn it into a great film.

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

If I am killed, I can die by once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.

Choices are easy when you have nothing to lose.

The Epicureans denied that the gods had created the world and also denied that they played any role in it.

All in green went my love riding

A good poet feels what his community feels. Like if you stub your toe, the rest of your body hurts.

In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.

Growing up crowds your mind with new thoughts and new feelings so that you forget how you used to think and feel.

There was something about the prairie for me—it wasn’t where I had come from, but when I moved there it just took me in and I knew I couldn’t ever stop living under that big sky.

A cultivation of the powers of one's personality is one of the greatest needs of life.